According to Reuters, Texas temperatures and conditions have worsened lately, that could bring back to life existing wildfires, while allowing new ones to proliferate. Texas Forest Service however, indicates that in the last week, there were 64 new fires that have burned 10,527 acres. It's not as though new fires have stopped, but that they are readily contained for the time being.
Already, 3.8M acres / 5937 square miles have burned, which is equal to 2.2% of all of Texas. In perspective, Rhode Island (1545 sq mi), Delaware (2489 sq mi) and Connecticut (5543 sq mi) are each smaller than the area burned in Texas.
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